The company promises that Windows 7 will be the best version of its operating system yet, critical acclaim has often eluded Redmond. We've decided to count down the ten best products ever to come out of Redmond, from DOS 5 to Flight Simulator and NT 4.0

Every day it gets hard and harder to keep up. Here is a list of 10 handy tools for increasing workplace efficiency.

Some of the people on this list are successful billionaires, Some Nobel prize winners or high-tech nomads. However, some individuals are weird even by geek standards.

To honour John Hughes, we've listed tech movies that give you all an excuse to sit down with a DVD or two and enjoy tech in the movies..

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

Cruel and unusual punishment.

Ever wondered which of your favourite Sci-fi films still holds up? Ian Thomson and Shaun Nichols looked at classics such as Jurrassic Park, War Games and The Matrix and found a few surprsies..

A fortnight ago we reviewed the worst villains in computing history. But what would a villain be without a hero to battle with?

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Ban Me.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

This week we examine a few of those true 'killer apps,' and what they have meant to computing

Randal Schwartz clears his name after 12 years.

Unless you've been living in a cave for the last week, you've witnessed the wholesale hysteria being launched over the recent Swine Flu outbreak..

For every way that the web has improved life, it has also made things more complicated, frustrating and dangerous..

Things that make you go aaaargh, including Vista, Bluetooth and other things that may or may not make you mad

From Betamax to Amiga, here's a list of those IT innovations that fell under the bulldozer. Some were cruelly robbed of their advantage, others threw it away with bad management

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals

Every industry has its share of villains, and the computing world is no different.